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DEDICATION.
lar
edification and blessing.
I cannot
deny,
but
the author's conjec.
tures
may
be
sometimes carried a
little too far, but that
doth not
pre-
ljudice
the
subject
in
the least.
Besides, he
is
generally
so
happy as to
find some arguments
for his
probable
notions
in
the
word
of
God, and
to
answer very
dexterously
all
the
objections
that
can
be
made against
May the ever-living God
give a blessing
to this work, and
grant
that
those
sweet
and relishing
truths,
proposed
in
these leaves,
may
make
such an impression upon the
minds
of
the readers
as
those noble
truths
deserve, May he
prevent
all the abuse of
this delightful subject, and
never
permit it
to
be
turned
into
a
mere dry
or
fruitless
spéculation;
but
may
he
inflame
every reader with a holy desire after a
blessed
eter-
nity,
and rouze and excite all
those,
that
have not begun
yet
to
tread
the
path of salvation,
to
enter
into
the
same
without delay,
that
they
may not rest
in
a mere delightful prospect
of
the
land
of Canaan, nor
be
for
ever excluded
by
their
unbelief from the eternal enjoynient
of
it.
Given
at Halle,
July
10,
1727,
Jelin
JACOB RAMlACFJ,
S. Theol.
Prof
Ordisar.